New Hardware, Upgrade Product Key Invalid. Please Help!

[sunpacer]

Hi.

I upgraded my Mobo, CPU, installed a new SSD and new data drive.

I own an upgrade Windows 7 Premium disk. I had been running Windows 7 Premium 64 on my previous machine.

Now when I do a clean install, it says my product key is not valid.

Is there anything I can do to be able to use this, or will I need to purchase full version of Windows 7? I hope that is not th answer.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Bill2]

To clean install with upgrade media, use this workaround.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html

If you did that and still get the error, you need to use the phone activation method.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18715-activate-windows-7-phone.html

 

[sunpacer]

To clean install with upgrade media, use this workaround.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html

If you did that and still get the error, you need to use the phone activation method.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18715-activate-windows-7-phone.html

Thanks for the response, however, it seems these will not work. I get stuck on #13 of the clean install, where it asks for the product key. It says the key is invalid. I can't even get to the point of activation, I can't even get the product key recogonized as valid. I am stumped.

 

[Bill2]

To clean install with upgrade media, use this workaround.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html

If you did that and still get the error, you need to use the phone activation method.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18715-activate-windows-7-phone.html

Thanks for the response, however, it seems these will not work. I get stuck on #13 of the clean install, where it asks for the product key. It says the key is invalid. I can't even get to the point of activation, I can't even get the product key recogonized as valid. I am stumped.

Did you read? That tutorial says NOT to check the Automatically activate Windows when I'm online box during the install process and to manually activate afterwards.

 

[sunpacer]

Yes, I did read that and had Activation on line unchecked. I think I just figured it out. I left the product key box blank and clicked next. It allowed me to finish the install. It did not like the product key I had from the Upgrade Retail box I was using.

Now I will just call and activate via phone.

Thanks again for your help. I do appreciate it.